David Williams with an adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy at the Flaum Eye Institute in the University of Rochester.

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Jinelle Shengulette

In September, David Williams, 59, traveled to the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, to receive one of the highest honors in the field of vision science and ophthalmology, António Champalimaud Vision Award.

"The president of Portugal presented (the award) as the sun set gloriously into the ocean behind us. My wife Inger was with me. It was a magical moment that you can't imagine you would be lucky enough to experience even once in an entire lifetime," said Williams, who is a faculty member of UR's Institute of Optics, ...